Access The Gap In The Hedge: Dispatches From The Extraordinary World Of British Gardening Edited By Charles Elliott Shown In Version

Gap in the Hedge explores British gardening past and present, as well as some of the odder byways into which a love of plants and gardens has led us.
There are accounts of such great planthunters as Reginald Farrer and

Joseph Rock, master gardeners like Ellen Willmott and Canon Ellacombe, and the undeservedly obscure scientist Jagadis Chunder Bose, whose improbable specialty was research into the emotions of plants.
Here too are essays on the difference between gardening and groundskeeping, topiary, mistletoe, orchids, waterlilies, the history of hoses, and much more.
Altogether, The Gap in the Hedge is a rich and vastly amusing assembly destined to please anyone interested in Britain, in gardening, or simply in human nature at its least commonplace.
Also picked this up at the book sale today, Looks like fun. A bit further down in the pile,
Grabbed this and read it for fun a couple of weeks ago, It was ok, but not great, Sold it at the used book shop last week, Not a keeper. "Here is a fresh crop of Charles Elliott's pungent, funny, and thoroughly unpredictable essays from the heartland of horticultural fanaticism, Great Britain.
Ranging from deeply felt reflections on stinging nettles and giant hogweed to an examination of the English gardener's obsession with privacy, these essays demonstrate once again why Elliott's columns have so delighted readers of Horticulture magazine along with many others without a trowel to their name.
Like his first collection, The Transplanted Gardener, . . The Gap in the Hedge explores British gardening past and present, as well as some of the odder byways into which a love of plants and gardens has led us.
There are accounts of such great planthunters as Reginald Farrer and Joseph Rock, master gardeners like Ellen Willmott and Canon Ellacombe, and the undeservedly obscure scientist Jagadis Chunder Bose, whose improbable specialty was research into the emotions of plants.
Here too are essays on the difference between gardening and groundskeeping, topiary, mistletoe, orchids, waterlilies, the history of hoses, and much more.
Altogether, The Gap in the Hedge is a rich and vastly amusing assembly destined to please anyone interested in Britain, in gardening, or simply in human nature at its least commonplace.
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front flap

It certainly is all those things "pungent, funny, and thoroughly unpredictable" and more, but these essays didn't grab my undivided attention.
In trying to sort out why they didn't, all I could come up with is that I don't know as much about British gardening as I needed to to enjoy this book.

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